RACF Contract Job Trends in England

IBM Resource Access Control Facility (RACF)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring RACF skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 525 518 523
Rank change year-on-year -7 +5 +179
Contract jobs citing RACF 16 9 46
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.052% 0.029% 0.12%
As % of the System Software category 0.41% 0.24% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 7
10th Percentile £312 £470 £530
25th Percentile £313 £481 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £488 £650
Median % change year-on-year -28.21% -25.00% +14.24%
75th Percentile £456 £575 £688
90th Percentile £543 £635 £713
UK median daily rate £450 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -18.18% -8.33% +5.45%

All System Software Skills
England

RACF falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 3,905 3,710 5,135
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.79% 11.94% 13.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,560 2,384 3,535
10th Percentile £213 £214 £198
25th Percentile £400 £383 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £518 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.43% +3.55% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £625
90th Percentile £675 £709 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 133 82 235
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.51 £15.50
25th Percentile £21.00 £21.46 £18.50
Median hourly rate £31.86 £43.08 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year -26.05% -1.53% +75.00%
75th Percentile £74.26 £68.77 £67.94
90th Percentile £89.93 £75.00 £77.11
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £46.09
% change year-on-year -7.69% -29.49% +84.36%

RACF
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing RACF relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

RACF job vacancy trend in England

RACF
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing RACF.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing RACF

RACF
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing RACF in England over the 6 months to 21 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for RACF in England

RACF
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing RACF.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing RACF

RACF
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RACF within the England region over the 6 months to 21 November 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England - 9 £325 - 2
North West - 8 £325 - 2
London -7 6 £513 +5.40% 3
Yorkshire - 1 - -
East of England - 1 - -
RACF
UK

RACF
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (25.00%) CICS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) DB2
General
1 8 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (31.25%) Banking
2 5 (31.25%) Finance
3 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Financial Institution
4 1 (6.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) Administrator
2 5 (31.25%) Programmer
2 5 (31.25%) Systems Programmer
3 3 (18.75%) CICS Programmer
3 3 (18.75%) CICS Systems Programmer
3 3 (18.75%) Mainframe Programmer
3 3 (18.75%) Mainframe Systems Programmer
4 2 (12.50%) z/OS Systems Programmer
5 1 (6.25%) Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Mainframe Support
5 1 (6.25%) Release Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Security Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Systems Support
5 1 (6.25%) Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (62.50%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 15 (93.75%) Mainframe
2 2 (12.50%) Onboarding
3 1 (6.25%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 6 (37.50%) zOS
2 1 (6.25%) Linux
2 1 (6.25%) Unix
2 1 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (50.00%) Change Management
2 8 (50.00%) Release Management
3 7 (43.75%) Storage Management
4 4 (25.00%) High Availability
4 4 (25.00%) ITIL
5 3 (18.75%) Data Sharing
5 3 (18.75%) Runbook
6 2 (12.50%) Change Control
6 2 (12.50%) Cost Reduction
6 2 (12.50%) Migration
6 2 (12.50%) Privileged Access Management
6 2 (12.50%) RBAC
7 1 (6.25%) Compliance Audit
7 1 (6.25%) Conflict Management
7 1 (6.25%) Performance Tuning
7 1 (6.25%) Programme Delivery
7 1 (6.25%) Programme Governance
7 1 (6.25%) Regulatory Compliance
7 1 (6.25%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 10 (62.50%) COBOL
1 10 (62.50%) JCL
1 10 (62.50%) REXX
2 9 (56.25%) CLIST
3 1 (6.25%) Assembly Language
3 1 (6.25%) PL/1
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (6.25%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (6.25%) GDPR
System Software
1 9 (56.25%) Time Sharing Option
2 8 (50.00%) ACF2
3 2 (12.50%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 8 (50.00%) CA Endevor
2 7 (43.75%) Tivoli
2 7 (43.75%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 3 (18.75%) OMEGAMON
4 1 (6.25%) zSecure
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) IBM
2 1 (6.25%) BMC
2 1 (6.25%) Broadcom
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow